Senior Software Engineer

Reference: R-2589757Posted: 2026-08-27Location: BENTONVILLE, AR, United StatesType: Full time / Regular/PermanentCompany: WalmartBusiness Segment: Home OfficePosition: Senior Software Engineer Job Location: 811 Excellence Dr, Bentonville, AR 72716 Duties: Application & Feature Delivery: Owns scoped feature or model delivery through collaborative engineering teams. Manages implementation, iteration, testing, and ongoing support for assigned services, APIs, user interfaces, or ML model components. Operates with a product-driven mindset and aligns outcomes with broader platform, system, and domain objectives. Software Development & Lifecycle Execution: Writes clean, efficient, and reliable code using languages such as JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Java, Rust, Dart, and C++. Drives full software development lifecycle, including CI/CD deployments, automated testing, observability, monitoring, and maintenance. Builds scripts for the automation of repetitive tasks and implements telemetry features independently. Conducts code structure reviews and supports ongoing defect management and debugging processes. AI/ML Integration & GenAI Enablement: Integrates AI agents and ML components using internal and external APIs to enhance software intelligence. Leverages GenAI tools such as GitHub Copilot to improve development velocity and innovation. Applies object-oriented programming principles and documentation-based coding practices to ensure modularity, maintainability, and consistency. Solution Design & Technical Leadership: Assists in converting high-level designs into detailed designs using mock screens, pseudo code, and functional logic. Evaluates trade-offs and designs scalable, secure, and maintainable software systems aligned with Walmart’s standards. Participates in design reviews and ensures the implementation of appropriate design patterns and principles. Customer/Associate Problem Definition & Metrics: Engages stakeholders to identify and refine complex business or user problems. Translates pain points into actionable technical requirements and defines clear metrics to measure solution success and impact. Collaborates with cross-functional teams to ensure the delivered solutions meet user needs and technical expectations. DevOps & Program Monitoring: Conducts complex maintenance procedures and monitors application performance using appropriate metrics and tools. Ensures adherence to project milestones and timelines through program reporting, CI/CD tools, and program logging systems. Supports the delivery of high-quality and reliable software systems through proactive monitoring, testing, and continuous integration practices. Engineering Excellence: Promotes a collaborative engineering mindset focused on continuous improvement and team wellbeing. Contributes to innovation strategies, internal knowledge sharing, and platform enhancement through engineering best practices. Supports system uptime, performance, and customer experience by owning the quality and performance of delivered features. Technical Ownership: Demonstrates responsibility for deliverables, ensuring solutions meet quality standards and business objectives. Takes initiative to resolve issues and drive projects to completion. Technical Judgment: Applies sound reasoning to make informed technical decisions, balancing trade-offs and considering long-term impacts on system architecture and business goals. Change Agility: Adapts quickly to change, embraces new technologies, and understands the broader system context. Anticipates the downstream effects of technical choices and integrates feedback to improve outcomes. Collaboration: Works effectively across teams, openly shares knowledge, and communicates complex ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Innovation & Continuous Improvement: Proactively seeks opportunities to enhance processes, tools, and products. Encourages experimentation and learning to drive ongoing improvement. Minimum education and experience required: Master's degree or the equivalent in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related field plus 1 year of experience in software engineering or related experience; OR Bachelor's degree or the equivalent in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related field plus 3 years of experience in software engineering or related experience. Skills Required: Must have experience with: Developing and maintaining software component using Java Spring Boot and RESTfull APIs; Using Kubernetes for deployment, scaling, and management of docker container-based applications; Designing and implementing reports, dashboards, and alerts in Splunk, Grafana and open observer for monitoring application performance and analyzing data with queries; Maintaining source code using Version Control tool GIT; Working on an event-driven microservices system using Apache Kafka, enabling real-time patient profile processing; Managing and integrating code quality using SonarQube Tool; Developing complex SQL queries for reducing data retrieval time and improving performance of application; Designing ETL process for data extraction, transformation and integration; Managing projects in Agile/Scrum environments, leveraging tools like JIRA for tracking tasks and facilitating team collaboration; Ensuring higher reliability and coverage by focuses on enhancing existing test cases using parametrized test cases; Translating requirements to models using tools like UML, sequence diagrams, and data flow diagrams to bridge the gap between user needs and technical execution. Employer will accept any amount of graduate coursework, graduate research experience or experience with the required skills. Rate of pay: $90,000.00 - 180,000.00 /year Wal-Mart is an Equal Opportunity Employer.